“Rice and corn plants as far as the eye can see are flattened. Many houses were destroyed. I saw one school building crushed under a large tree. It was as if our house was being pulled from its foundations.”

The Paris agreement — negotiated by 196 heads of state last December — will enter into force on November 4th, just 3 days before the start of the next UN meeting.

Sundrop Farms' system creates 39 megawatts of energy per day, enough to maintain 18,000 tomato plants inside a greenhouse. Sustainable farming could be the key to dealing with food shortages brought on by climate change and population growth in the future.

Vertical farming is turning out to be nearly 10 times more efficient than traditional agriculture. The development is being described as an agricultural evolution as opposed to a revolution. 

Researchers have developed a "supramolecule" born of two negatively charged molecules, defying the 250-year-old Coulomb's law. The technique used to create the "supramolecule" could strip sulfate molecules from nuclear waste to help protect water from contamination.

Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier builds upon his renowned work on developing countries and the world’s poorest populations to confront the global mismanagement of natural resources. Proper stewardship of natural assets and liabilities is a matter of planetary urgency: natural resources have the potential either to transform the poorest countries or to tear them apart, while the carbon emissions and agricultural follies of the developed world could further impoverish them. The Plundered Planet charts a course between unchecked profiteering on the one hand and environmental romanticism on the other to offer realistic and sustainable solutions to dauntingly complex issues.